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Pillars · Sunny Day Real Estate

EXERCISE 5 OF 17
Groove F
134 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pillars on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-76, snare through bars 77-84, hi-hat through bars 85-135 and snare through bars 136-153.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 12 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x-------x-------x---|
Pillars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 100, 136 and 144.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pillars?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Pillars hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Pillars?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 100, 136 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED